AN HISTORICAL STUDY of ISMA'il B. *ABD AL-QADIR , KITAB SA *ADAT AL-Mustahdl BI—Slrat AL-IMAM AL—MAHDI
AN HISTORICAL STUDY OF ISMA'iL b. *ABD AL-QADIR , KITAB SA *ADAT AL-MUSTAHDl BI—SlRAT AL-IMAM AL—MAHDI Haim SHARED A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in the Faoulty of Arts, University of London London, June 1969 ProQuest Number: 10752711 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. uest ProQuest 10752711 Published by ProQuest LLC(2018). Copyright of the Dissertation is held by the Author. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. ProQuest LLC. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 4 8 1 0 6 - 1346 2 ABSTRACT Xsma *11 h. *Abd al-Qadir (d. 189?), a member oX a 1 holy Xamily* of1 KordoXan, bad studied at a 1-A a bar and later served as multi in B1 Obeid* Xn late 1882 be joined tbe Mah.di. His subsequent career cannot be Xully reconstructed. On 2 R a b I * X 3.306/6 November 1888, be completed bis Sira of the Mabdi, On 6 Sbawwal 1306/5 June 1 8 8 9 , be completed another work, dealing with the wars between tbe KhaliXa and the Abyssinians• Xn 1893? at tbe KhaliXa1s order, Xsma*11*s,writings were destroyed and be was banished to al-RajjaX, where be died in tbe beginning oX 1897* Tbe unique extant manuscript oopy ol Ismalilfs Sira, which forms tbe basis oX the thesis, is a biography of tbe Mabdi by one oX bis adherents, which, also contains elements ol a chronicle.
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